Purse.



PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

R. MALZAHN.

PURSE. 7 APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1902.

no MODEL.

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- nection with said frame-sections to hold the UNITED STATES PATENFFICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,880, dated January6, 1903.

Application filed March 29, l902..

To ail whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT MALZAHN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Westbend, in the county of Washington and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Purses;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

The object of my invention is to save cost in the manufacture ofhinge-frame purses and to provide such purses having seamless bodies,said invention being hereinafter more particularly set forth andsubsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a plan view of the body-piece of apurse in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 an end view of thepurse.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates the pliable body, and Beach of the metal frame-sections of a purse in accordance with myinvention, said frame-sections being hinged together at opposite endsand heroin shown provided with locking-knobs C, such as are common inthe art; but various other well-known means may be employed in conpurseclosed. Purse-body A is a single piece of pliable material blanked tohave narrow ends notched at their extremities, and which with the widermiddle portion have longitudinal and oblique edges. The polygonal edgesof the body-piece are made fast to the framesections B of the purse andare each folded on lines diverging from a common center, as indicated bydotted lines in Fig. 1, there being a middle outward fold, adjacentinward Serial No. 100,554. (No model.)

folds on lines extending from said center to points between corners ofoblique edges of said end, and outward folds on lines from the aforesaidcenter tointersections of longitudinal end edges and oblique edges ofthe widest portion of said body-piece. The purse-body being a singlepiece shaped and folded as herein set forth, n0 stitching is required inmaking a strong, durable, and economical purse.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A hinge-frame purse, the body of which is a single piece of pliablematerial blanked to have narrow ends angularly notched at theirextremities and which with the wider middle portion of the piece havelongitudinal and oblique edges, said ends being each folded outward on acenter longitudinal line, inward on lines extending from said centertopoints between corners of oblique edges of said end and outward on linesfrom the aforesaid center to intersections of longitudinal end edges andoblique edges of the aforesaid body-piece, the polygonal edges of thisbody-piece being madefast to the hinge-frame sections of the purse.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, atWestbend, in the county of Washington and State of Wisconsin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

ROBERT MALZAHN.

Witnesses:

EMIL SCHEWELEIT, ALBERT E. GRAY.

